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Do You Relate to Marcey?
A Story of the Struggle of Leadership
Marcey woke up one day and felt panicked. While six weeks ago she had enjoyed a sense of pride, on this morning she was disillusioned and afraid because the project she was given to manage had failed. She didn’t want to deal with her team members anymore. This was a particularly brutal feeling to experience on that particular morning because her project was being reviewed by the person who assigned her the position.
It was understandable that Marcey felt this way because working with team members with different skill levels and motivations makes bringing them together harder. Not only that, but given how there was so much tension caused by remote working, political unrest and a global pandemic, it seemed almost impossible that there was a way out of this mess, no way to get them to work together..
As Marcey finished washing off her face in the bathroom, she thought about a statistic she saw the previous day that made everything seem even more dire. She read that depression has tripled in adults since the pandemic and loneliness was on the rise.
This only made Marcey feel even more hopeless. As she waited for her leftover coffee to finish heating up in the microwave, she opened up the Amazon app on her phone to check the status of something that was supposed to arrive that day. And that’s when she saw an ad for C.L.A.I.M. Your Team: A 5-Facet Leadership Strategy to Build Community”
There are many leaders like Marcey who are responsible for teams of people and struggle with leading members to work together in community and get the job done. And what many project managers often do to overcome this issue is focus on the project, its timeline, and the expectations. In a sense, this becomes an epic failure, for this approach just doesn’t work because the answer lies on a deeper level, with the people.
But what can a team leader do instead? If focusing on the project is flawed because the answer is deeper, then project managers can overcome frustration and get the project done on time and in budget if they focus on the team. Project management is not managing a project, instead it is managing people. And in C.L.A.I.M. Your Team: A 5-Facet Leadership Strategy to Build Community, readers will learn how to have team members work together more efficiently, skillfully, and amicably in a way they never have before.
What do you think?
Are you a leader with these struggles? Are you being led by someone who appears to have these struggles? Are you curious about what the 5-facet Leadership Strategy is? Future posts will explain more about it.